The Globalist Ghetto of Fjolmidlum is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, complete lack of prisons, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic, cheerful population of 6.263 billion Fjols hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kallisti. The average income tax rate is 5.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fjolish economy, worth 929 trillion Kromers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Retail, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 148,458 Kromers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world, the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, and all animals are equal but some are more equal than others. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Fjolmidlum's national animal is the Predator Drone, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Erisianism.

Fjolmidlum is ranked 65,385^th in the world and 2^nd in The International Union of Boygirls for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,951.6 on the Gilded Widget Scale.